Mock::Config(3)

💅 Mock::Config — the Perl manpage, bestie edition ✨

okay so real talk: this is Mock::Config, like, the module that lets you temporarily set Config or XSConfig values. yes, even the spicy readonly ones. let's get into it 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

Mock::Config — temporarily set Config or XSConfig values. that's the whole vibe, no cap 💜

🎀 VERSION 🎀

Version 0.04. that's the one bestie, don't @ me 🌸

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

so here's the situation: XSConfig is readonly, right? iconic of it honestly. but we workaround that 😌

use Mock::Config d_fork => 0, perl_patchlevel => '';

and like, heads up — the importer works only dynamically, not lexically yet. so no lexical delulu, only dynamic reality:

use Mock::Config;
Mock::Config->import(startperl => '');
print $Config{startperl}, ' mocked to empty';
Mock::Config->unimport;

see how startperl gets mocked to empty and then we put it back? chef's kiss 🔥

⭐ SUBROUTINES ⭐

💫 import

sets a pair of Config values — and yes, even for the readonly XSConfig implementation, as used in cperl. the way it just handles that? icon behavior 💅

ngl, the big caveat here: it does not store the mocked overrides lexically, just dynamically. so don't come for it expecting lexical scoping, that's not the assignment bestie 🙈

🧚 unimport

this one is unstacked and not lexical. it undoes all imported Config values at once — like a full reset, one fell swoop, periodt 💀

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Reini Urban, <rurban at cpan.org>. shoutout to the main character who wrote this 🫶

💀 BUGS 💀

pls pls pls report any bugs or feature requests at <https://github.com/perl11/Mock-Config/issues> 🙏

and then the sweet part: we will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your request as we make changes. so like, you're looped in fr fr 💖

🌈 SUPPORT 🌈

you can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command, easy:

perldoc Mock::Config

and you can also look for information at these iconic spots:

• RT: CPAN's request tracker (report bugs here) — <http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=Mock-Config>
• AnnoCPAN: Annotated CPAN documentation — <http://annocpan.org/dist/Mock-Config>
• CPAN Ratings — <http://cpanratings.perl.org/d/Mock-Config>
• Search CPAN — <http://search.cpan.org/dist/Mock-Config/>

✨ all the links, all the lore, iykyk ✨

🍓 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 🍓

(nothing listed here bestie — the section is just vibes, but it's still a section so we keep it 💜)

📜 LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT 📜

Copyright 2016 cPanel Inc. 🎀

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the the Artistic License (2.0). You may obtain a copy of the full license at:

<http://www.perlfoundation.org/artistic_license_2_0>

Any use, modification, and distribution of the Standard or Modified Versions is governed by this Artistic License. By using, modifying or distributing the Package, you accept this license. Do not use, modify, or distribute the Package, if you do not accept this license.

If your Modified Version has been derived from a Modified Version made by someone other than you, you are nevertheless required to ensure that your Modified Version complies with the requirements of this license.

This license does not grant you the right to use any trademark, service mark, tradename, or logo of the Copyright Holder.

This license includes the non-exclusive, worldwide, free-of-charge patent license to make, have made, use, offer to sell, sell, import and otherwise transfer the Package with respect to any patent claims licensable by the Copyright Holder that are necessarily infringed by the Package. If you institute patent litigation (including a cross-claim or counterclaim) against any party alleging that the Package constitutes direct or contributory patent infringement, then this Artistic License to you shall terminate on the date that such litigation is filed.

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(yes all caps, it's giving serious legal energy, don't skip it bestie 😭)

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